mikeldmv t1_j9xc6pl wrote
Reply to comment by mikeoxsmall2023 in Am I the only one who thinks that What a wonderful world by Louis Armstrong should be humankind's anthem? by Historical_Ad1970
It’s not my personal take. I’m just letting OP know how unlikely it would be to get support, bc this is the opinion of a lot of people
I’m sure Love Is All You Need is a pretty good guess if there was ever a vote on said topic.
mikeoxsmall2023 t1_j9xd0r8 wrote
What is “Uncle Tom” about it
mikeldmv t1_j9xdlrq wrote
I gave you the basic information and already told you it’s not my argument. Feel free to do the research yourself and come to your own conclusions.
Apostate_Nate t1_j9xw2wv wrote
A lot of what people exactly? I've definitely never heard of this hatred for What a Wonderful World before.
And it doesn't seem that there's any reference to it that google can find either.
Maybe give us some examples, some proof. Otherwise you're pretty much just talking out your butt.
Edit - cool, you're just making shit up in a failed attempt to add weight to an opinion you hold, which is not in fact shared by others. Pretty lame yo. "it's not my personal take", but it seems it actually is your personal take, and one not shared by anyone who ever bothered to say anything to that end in any major media.
mikeldmv t1_j9y5b01 wrote
Ever heard the song Nappy Heads by The Fugees? Sure doesn’t sound like a respectful reference he’s making there to me. Mocking the shit out of him with his impression, and then he says, “But what the fuck was so wonderful 'bout pickin cotton, on a farm?”
Bob O’Meally, the head of jazz studies at Columbia University in New York, remains divided. While lauding Armstrong as “one of the greatest people of the 20th century”, he was “offended by his presentations … At the time of the rise of Malcolm X, the authority of Martin Luther King, examples in the popular media like Muhammad Ali and others, there was Armstrong – a kind of throwback from another era, with this borderline minstrelsy role that he played. I cringed as a black American.”
“Armstrong was regularly called an Uncle Tom.”
I love the song. The context is that OP is nominating it to be ‘humankind’s anthem’ ffs, so it definitely seems relevant to bring up controversy. I pointed out there would be push back, and generally topics like this become a much bigger deal for much lesser titles.
Apostate_Nate t1_j9y5hu9 wrote
Cool, you took a couple kinda sorta references and a couple articles and decided there was this massive hatred for a well beloved song, let alone the even more loved artist... You do you, but you're hilariously wrong. Half a dozen references and you want to turn that into a giant, monolithic hatred of the guy. It just doesn't track with actual reality, sorry.
Just blocking your contrarian idiocy. Have a great life. It's a wonderful world, after all.
BeautifulLoser62 t1_ja04xg9 wrote
and bread and water...
mikeldmv t1_ja06882 wrote
Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science??
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BeautifulLoser62 t1_ja4yrvj wrote
MIKELDMV,
HOW I RESPONDED WAS NOT WRITTEN IN STONE. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY WHAT YOU WANT, JUST AS I DO. THEN AGAIN IT'S JUST AN OPINION.
YOU DO KNOW WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT OPINIONS DON'T YOU?
HAVE A NICE DAY.
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